In rejecting a public-records request from The Lens, the district attorney’s office said it was too burdensome.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
Reader slams two Lens columns on Israel, declaring them anti-Semitic rants
Accuses Lens of ‘selective outrage’
Posted inCriminal Justice
Will prosecutors who sent fake subpoenas face any consequences?
The possibilities include disciplinary action, federal charges, and nothing at all.
Posted inCriminal Justice, Opinion
Remembering Deb Cotton: New Orleans must hold leaders accountable for violence prevention
She died Tuesday. Here’s the column she wrote while she was still hospitalized from her injuries in the Mother’s Day second-line shooting in 2013.
Posted inOpinion, Schools
Their art proves therapeutic for young poets in violence-torn New Orleans
And yet arts programming in schools nationwide is on the wane.
Posted inOpinion
Our jazz is culturally black, but its global dissemination owes a lot to Italians
Benito Mussolini dug it big-time
Posted inCriminal Justice
Woman who got fake subpoena from Orleans DA says she was threatened with jail twice
One of the threats came after her lawyer asked a judge to throw out the notice.
Posted inCriminal Justice
Jefferson Parish prosecutors used fake subpoenas similar to those in New Orleans
Criticism of the Orleans Parish DA’s office grew Thursday after a Lens investigation into the practice.
Posted inCriminal Justice, Opinion
Rampant use and abuse of ‘solitary confinement’ key to what ails Louisiana prisons
Vera Institute study offers hope for change
Posted inCharter Schools, Schools
Charter board delays action on Coghill teachers’ request for union recognition
It’s the fifth school to undergo a union drive in recent years.